It left it until the last minute, but BBC1 looks to have bagged the biggest-rating show of the year after nearly 14 million people watched its coverage of London's New Year's Eve fireworks – pipping ITV's I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! into second place.

BBC1's New Year's Eve Fireworks, a 15-minute spectacular presented by Susanna Reid, averaged 13.7 million viewers, a 67.5% share of the audience, from 11.55pm on New Year's Eve to 12.10am on New Year's Day.

It was bookended by Gary Barlow's Big Ben Bash Live – the Take That frontman was watched by 6.8 million viewers, a 38.4% share, between 11.15pm and 11.55pm, and 10.2 million viewers (58.5%) between 12.10am and 12.30am.

This gave BBC1 by some distance the top rating show of 2013, ahead of the 13.5 million consolidated audience for the launch episode of the recent series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!. The consolidated audience for the reality show included people who recorded it and watched it in the subsequent seven days.

Over on BBC2 on New Year's Eve, 2.6 million viewers chose to see in 2014 with Jools' Annual Hootenanny, an 18.6% share of the audience between 11.30pm and 1.30pm, while the ITV News bulletin which straddled the Big Ben bongs had 876,000 viewers (4.5%) between 11.45pm and 12.05am.

Channel 4 was running down a list of the 50 Funniest Moments of 2013 when the party poppers went pop, watched by 730,000 (4.4%) between 11.05pm and 1.05am, while Channel 5 rewound the clock to 1967 for another showing of Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper silent comedy The Plank, with 263,000 viewers (1.6%) between 11.50pm and 12.55am.

Earlier, Channel 4's Alan Carr's New Year Specstacular had 1.6 million viewers (8.7%) between 9pm and 11.05pm. It followed a celebrity edition of the Channel 4 quiz 15 to One, hosted by Adam Hills, which had 1.6 million viewers (7.9%) between 8pm and 9pm.

BBC1's Two Doors Down, its one-off TV adaptation of the Radio 4 sitcom, starring Arabella Weir, Daniela Nardini and Alex Norton, had 3 million viewers (15.4%) between 9pm and 10pm.

All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC channels) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated. Figures for BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 generally include ratings for their HD simulcast services, unless otherwise stated